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Does smoking.make one dumber? : evidence from teenagers in rural China

author(s) Zhao, M.. - Glewwe, P.. - Konishi, Y.
from UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
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  • Eastern Asia
  • Asia
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Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

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Abstract

Youth smoking can biologically reduce learning productivity. It can also reduce youths’ motivation to go to school, where smoking is forbidden. Using rich household survey data from rural China, this study investigates the effect of youth smoking on educational outcomes. Youth smoking is clearly an endogenous variable; to obtain consistent estimates of its impact, the authors used counts of registered alcohol vendors and a food price index as instrumental variables

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